Word: p
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...P. J. VAN WINKLE...
Bishop John P. Cody (Class of '32) of Kansas City spoke for all the North American College's old grads this weekend when he said: "This institution is ageless. We who have studied here give thanks to Almighty God for the good the college has done. And we are confident the future will be even more glorious...
...RETURN OF H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N (192 pp.)-Leo Rosten, -Harper...
Hyman Kaplan, the bagel Bonaparte, has returned from the island of Ellis. As in The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N more than 20 years ago, English is his most beloved enemy, but Waterloo is not in his capricious vocabulary, and as the stars with which he decorates his name on the blackboard testify, his ego is still imperial. He attacks sense and syntax with the same insouciance that originally made him such a verbal charmer. To Hyman Kaplan, the discoverer of the laws of gravity is "Isaac Newman,'' the plural...
While the belly laughs are few, the chuckles are frequent in The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, and as its redoubtable hero might put it, "by Keplen. high-tone crititzizink is a vaste time. Tsplit infinitifs, I got; wrong tanses, like-vise; dobble nagetifs, also. Hau Kay? Enjoy...